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Day 2 · Interview 11 of 221:39 PM · Moscone West

Erin Kim

Co-Founder & CEO, Mesh

Automation for corporate accounting teams.

The full conversation

5:54 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

3:22 · Erin's answers, condensed.

Clips

6 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Make accounting sexy again

“By the way, I actually studied accounting in college and I actually, so my first job was doing accounts payable and receivable for like a small accounting firm and I quit on the fourth day because it's way too boring. We…”

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AI isn't the bottleneck. Adoption is.

“We're betting on the fact that AI technology is no longer the bottleneck it's actually deployment and adoption so accountants as you know or tend to be risk averse conservative they honestly don't know where to get start…”

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Don't pretend to be big

“I at first thought that I had to pretend like we were a big company and we were a serious company and we are serious company we have a lot of you know over 20 plus years of accounting experience but I really leaned into …”

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Start with what you've already done

“If you're kind of wondering what I want to leave and I want to kind of try my own thing but I don't have an idea well I think the best place to start is by looking at what you've done already what do you what unique adva…”

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AI doom? New jobs get born too.

“A lot of engineers, a lot of people are feeling this AI doom. But, you know, as we've gone through every technological advancement, there's going to be new industries and new jobs and new problems that are born because o…”

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Let's do it again, for other companies

“I think I saw the impact that we drove at our former companies. We helped double the margins of our former 300 person accounting team and we grew the revenue from 20 to a hundred million dollars. That's kind of our claim…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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